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Title: S/pace (open captions)
Type: video file
Date: 2020
Identifier: S-PACE_OpenCaptions_FINAL
Identifier (PID): yul:1153563

Title: Painting on film with Adam Wolfond
Description: Adam explores painting on clear 16mm film using sticks and other materials. When dried and projected, the film footage is an explosion of colours, textures and rhythms. This is a new film clip from our artistic explorations about pace, sticks and its materialization with film. This came about as Adam and I discussed how he pixelates, or "frames" movement with the repetition of videos (with the quick clicks of a computer mouse), uses flipbook animation to study movement, waves sticks and flicks water to also pace movement. He thinks about the way his body tics "to feel the world..." and how it hesitates because "I feel the world too much." Hesitation and movement "dance" - like flicked sticks and watercolour - as a way to move within a barrage of sensory-motor stimuli. Adam became interested in the 8mm camera and its sounds as well as the movement of colour on film itself. Slowing down the movement provides the opportunity to study its patterns. It allows a ticcing-moving in slowmo (abeit in seconds), a movement-ephemera. This is the creative "stimvention" (playing on the words "stim" and invention) using various materials - in this case film, sticks, paint - to think differently about diversity, movement and becoming. It pulses beyond the pathology paradigm where autistic movement is characterized as a problem rather than for creative invention and contribution. And more importantly, Adam loves to watch it for its own sake.
Type: video file
Date: 2020
Identifier: Painting on Film with Adam Wolfond
Identifier (PID): yul:1153561

Title: RETROSPECTIVE (2019)
Description: Short film published in Journal of Narrative Politics, Volume 5 Number 2 (2019)
Type: digital video
Date: 2019
Identifier: jnp-5-2-2019
Identifier (PID): yul:1151240

Title: Alain Badiou on the death of Che Guevara and the sameness of the world
Description: Short film published in Journal of Narrative Politics Volume 5 Number 1 (2018). Director summary follows: "This is our submission to the async International Short Film Competition (sitesakamoto.com/contest/). It is a sequence from our upcoming documentary about French philosopher Alain Badiou, set to the composition "disintegration," by Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album async."
Type: digital video
Date: 2017
Identifier: jnp-5-1-2018
Identifier (PID): yul:1150243

Title: Watada family videos : zoo animals
Description: Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family’shome movie featuring featuring a view of a neighbourhood, a bridge, and animals at a zoo (reindeer, zebras, lions, and geese). Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Terry Watada became interested in his family history when he realized his parents were forced into internment camps by the Canadian government during World War II. The youngest of two boys and with an 18-year age gap, he only came to know this history in his late teens. The footage selected shows glimpses of Terry’s childhood and features community members with whom he grew up. A small clip shows Terry wearing his cub scout uniform. In 1959, he was eight-years-old and was part of the 45th cub scout "wolf pack"; he later became a scout until the age of 17. The families on the farm near the beginning of the footage feature the Watada family visiting the Itos in Cooksville, Ontario. Mr. Ito had connections with Terry’s father when he lived in BC; Mr. Ito was a former employee of Matsujiro Watada. Because his father helped with the down payment of their farm, the Watadas would receive bushels of vegetables every season during Terry’s childhood. A prominent feature of his childhood, Terry and his family attended organized community picnics along with other members of the Japanese Canadian community in Toronto. A game played was the catching of mochi balls. A coveted gift since the process to make it by hand was time consuming. The picnic near the end of the selected home movies depicts a Shinto lion dance (around 68’ or 69’). There were always religious undertones at these picnics, either Buddhist or Shinto along with the Obon festival that would take place every year. The religious undertone would shift as they became an event that no longer only catered to a Japanese audience."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-061/001(11)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-061/001(11)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152812

Title: Chan family videos : RCMP weddings : part 2 of 4
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the 1960s Kate’s dad, George admired the RCMP and made a point of befriending them. This segment includes four RCMP weddings. Here at Virden United Church George, like much of the town, waits to see the bride and groom. George would later go on to screen these films at the town Holiday parties. The Chan family was the only Chinese family in the community and his relationship with the RCMP helped him maintain his business as the owner of the Virden Café. It also helped that Kate’s mother, Clara, was Russian and hostess at their café."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (02)
Date: [196-]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152068

Title: Long family videos : school recital : xylophone
Description: Item consists of a Chinese-Canadian family’s home movie featuring playing the xylophone at a school recital.
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-039/001(20)
Date: 2003-2004
Identifier: 2019-039/001(20)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152772

Title: Lo family videos : Christmas : part 3 of 4
Description: Item consists of a video recording that features children opening and playing with Christmas presents. Project and donor contributed description follows: "During this Christmas, the family have their cousin Sau Fong visiting. The children are waving excitedly to the camera as they open and show their gifts. Over the years, uncles and aunts would occasionally stay with the Lo family while studying English at the local college. Home movies were one of the ways they stayed connected to relatives in Macau and shared their life living in Canada. Copies were routinely made to send back."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-037 / 001 (03)
Date: [between 1978-1982]
Identifier: 2019-037 / 001 (03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152029

Title: 2nd Carnival Montreal 75
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring Carifesta crowds and performers. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: “This footage was shot in the mid-1970s and marks one of the first Montreal Caribbean Carnival celebrations in the city. Heather’s parents, Richard and Althea Seaman, brought her and her siblings, Hazel and Herbert, to see their first few parades as spectators. In later years, the family was occasionally involved as participants – whether helping to create costumes, build floats or march in the annual parade. The summer event was launched to celebrate and showcase the Caribbean culture and heritage of immigrants, who were born on one of the diverse islands or those who had ancestry there. While Toronto started their Caribbean Carnival – Caribana - in 1967 as a tribute to Canada’s centennial celebrations, Montrealers held their first Carifiesta parade and festival in 1975.”
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(01)
Date: [1975 or 1976]
Identifier: 2019-067/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153228

Title: The Feminist Porn Archive Project: Questions from a Working Ontologist
Description: Feminists have long been concerned by archival silences and their impact on memory. Most reclamation work has been about uncovering the buried or lost records of women and inserting interpretations of such material inside broad social, political, cultural and historical narratives. Archivists and librarians also create new and sometimes exciting juxtapositions of archival material that allows for radical recontextualizations of womens’ cultural and political contributions. Archival work at every stage is thus a process of transforming private documents into public testimonial. However, in the creation of women’s archives inside institutional archives using traditional archival principles, we replicate neoliberal ideological formations by emphasizing the individual subject and focusing on the records of primarily white straight women of privilege. How might we instead use the new archival media of the Internet to explore feminist theoretical emphases on collectivity, intersubjectivity, intersectionality, and the affective relations of care, desire and intimacy? How do we prevent subjectivity and meaning from being fixed into place but allow for more slippery and promiscuous plays of meaning in a public feminist archive? How might we reboot the archives of women through digitization, and also provoke feminist rethinkings of the technologies of archivization? Linked open data can be viewed as a deeply post-structuralist response to the nomological principle of authority and commandment of the traditional archive and offers us a generative, erotic commingling of information which resists fixity and hierarchy and focuses instead on relationality. In this paper I will speculate about how a feminist porn archive can, through linked data spatializations and their attendant onotologies, offer new ways of thinking about the archive and the archival-able.
Type: videorecording
Identifier (PID): yul:770322

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 3 of 4
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 consists of several everyday moments including children playing in the snow during winter and by the pool during the summer, parties and celebrations, a trip to Niagara Falls, and a tour of a house for sale. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that “it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (04)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150718

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 2 of 4
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 featuring adults and children having a barbecue in a park, hanging out in a car, and meeting Santa Claus. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that “it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (03)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150717

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 1 of 4
Description: A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978consisting of a party with adults and children dancing, footage of and from the top of the CN tower, a child playing around the house and pool, and a child playing with a soccerball wearing a 1978 Argentina Championship t-shirt. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that 'it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language.'"
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (02)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150716

Title: Valcin family videos : Montreal snow storm
Description: Video recording from 1971 consisting of a Haitian family and their neighbours shoveling snow and digging out the street. Recording also features children playing in the snow and a tractor plowing the street. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "On March 4th, 1971, Montreal saw the “Storm of the Century”, a massive snowstorm brought 43cm of snow and 100/km winds to the city. It would take 41 years for this snowfall record to be broken. People lost electricity for as long as ten days. Nadine recalls living on St. Leonard and not being able to see through her patio doors and that the only people who could get around were emergency vehicles and snowmobiles. Of course this major setback meant snow days for everyone, and Nadine’s parents and neighbours got to shoveling. In a predominantly Italian neighbourhood, Nadine suspects her family may have been the only Black family on this street. With no school, five-year old Nadine took pleasure in the Montreal pastime of building snow forts."
Type: video file
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Date: 1971
Identifier: 2018-028 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1149820

Title: Pafois family videos : compilation of home movies
Description: Item consists of a Barbadian- and Guyanese-Canadian family's home movie whic includes footage of a Popeye cartoon, an Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon, children playing, a birthday celebration, a crowd outside and a man speaking into a microphone, a parade with cars as floats, adults hanging out, a hall filled with adults eating and dancing, a picnic at a park, gatherings with Christmas decorations in the background, a family dog wearing a hat, and a family gardening. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Its 1974 or 1975 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Mike Nobrega, cousins, aunts, extended family and friends are seen in domestic settings. They are also pictured sharing a picnic in the summertime. Mike was born in Toronto, and moved to Nova Scotia when he was young. His father is from Guyana and mother is from Barbados. The community around where he grew up was very diverse, including people from the Ukraine, Poland, Carribean, Italy. Many came to work in steel and coal mines."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-056/001(01)
Date: [1974 or 1975]
Identifier: 2019-056/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153241

Title: Pafois family videos : compilation of home movies
Description: Item consists of a Barbadian- and Guyanese-Canadian family's home movie featuring two adults and a baby in the kitchen, children and adults dancing, a child unwrapping Christmas presents and playing with a doll, children riding bicycles and playing on swing sets, the family driving in a car, and snowy streets with adults shovelling and children playing. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Its 1972 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Shot on 8mm film, Mike Nobrega, his brother Richard, and aunt Beryl are seen inside their home and backyard on Tupper Street. Mike was born in Toronto, and moved to Nova Scotia when he was young. His father is from Guyana and mother is from Barbados. The community around where he grew up was very diverse, including people from the Ukraine, Poland, Carribean, Italy. Many came to work in steel and coal mines."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-056/001(02)
Date: 1972
Identifier: 2019-056/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153243

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children at a beach. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(11)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(11)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153237

Title: Chen family videos : swimming at a lake
Description: Item consists of a Chinese family's home movie featuring children and adults swimming and playing in a lake. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Shortly after arriving with her family in 1968 Canada, Millie’s family visit Niagara Falls. This clip is the last recorded film of her older sister, Wendy, before she was killed in a car accident in the fall of that year. The next time the camera is picked up is for the birth of her younger sister Cecilia. The other selected footage feature several outings to cottage country and parks all across Southern Ontario, as well as the Eastern seaboard. Millie’s parents had an immense appreciation for the outdoors and wanted to nurture this relationship in their children. Mavericks in their own way, the Chens encouraged their children to take part in various cultural experiences. Millie and her sister were both trained in the arts and later continue to take part in the arts world through their careers. In February 1977, Millie plays the piano at her recital in a concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Always nervous when performing publicly, Millie was grateful to be wearing her mother’s hand made skirt that was long enough to hide her trembling knees. During Cherry Blossom season her family enjoy a beautiful afternoon in High Park. Unlike the present day, the park is mostly empty outside of a few people in the background. Her father who usually is behind the camera can be seen enjoying the day with his family. Over the years, Millie and her mother would occasionally take over the filming to get their father in front of the camera. Her mother is particularly teasing and playful on this day. She can be seen laying in the grass kicking up her feet and winking at the camera."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-057/001(04)
Date: [between 1968 and 1977]
Identifier: 2019-057/001(04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153236

Title: Dhaliwal family videos : traditional Sikh marriage in India : Ardas, palla, and lama
Description: Item consists of a Punjabi-, Jatt-, and Sikh-Canadian family's home movie featuring a wedding and family members speaking outside, singing, and dancing. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The bride's side of the family takes their seat beside the groom and the ceremony begins. There’s an Ardas, a request for a blessing. The priest Jathadar Ji advises the couple on how to conduct their lives together according to Sikh traditions and religious edicts. The bride’s father takes the palla around the groom’s neck and puts it around his daughter, officially blessing them. The lamas begin; the couple bows down and walks around the Guru. The lama is repeated four times and with each lama, the couple gets closer to marriage. After that and more scripture, the audience members pay their respect one by one. The couple is seen off and returns and celebrates in their ancestral village with sweets, blessings and dancing."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-051/001(04)
Date: Feb. 1985
Identifier: 2019-051/001(04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153233

Title: Chen family videos : Cecilia Runnymede School, Sings the Rainbow 1977
Description: Item consists of a Chinese family's home movie featuring a children’s choir recital. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Shortly after arriving with her family in 1968 Canada, Millie’s family visit Niagara Falls. This clip is the last recorded film of her older sister, Wendy, before she was killed in a car accident in the fall of that year. The next time the camera is picked up is for the birth of her younger sister Cecilia. The other selected footage feature several outings to cottage country and parks all across Southern Ontario, as well as the Eastern seaboard. Millie’s parents had an immense appreciation for the outdoors and wanted to nurture this relationship in their children. Mavericks in their own way, the Chens encouraged their children to take part in various cultural experiences. Millie and her sister were both trained in the arts and later continue to take part in the arts world through their careers. In February 1977, Millie plays the piano at her recital in a concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Always nervous when performing publicly, Millie was grateful to be wearing her mother’s hand made skirt that was long enough to hide her trembling knees. During Cherry Blossom season her family enjoy a beautiful afternoon in High Park. Unlike the present day, the park is mostly empty outside of a few people in the background. Her father who usually is behind the camera can be seen enjoying the day with his family. Over the years, Millie and her mother would occasionally take over the filming to get their father in front of the camera. Her mother is particularly teasing and playful on this day. She can be seen laying in the grass kicking up her feet and winking at the camera."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-057/001(06)
Date: Feb. 1977
Identifier: 2019-057/001(06)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153232

Title: Edralin family videos : tricycle
Description: Item consists of a Filipino-Canadian family's home movie featuring a child and adult holding hands and walking, and a child riding a tricycle. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Martin’s little sister and his mom are walking by Martin’s elementary school, Metropolitan Andrei Catholic School on Mississauga Valley Blvd. The school is located right by their home across highway 10. The Edralins lived at this residence until Martin was around 10 years old, and then moved further west to Erin Mills. The family moved because his mother wanted a bigger detached house with a bigger lawn. There is a community of Filipinos in Mississauga, and growing up, the Edralins had a close-knit group of family friends. In 1983, when the footage was taken, there were no condos in the neighborhood. When Martin used to attend Francis Xavier Secondary School at the intersection of Mavis Rd. and Matheson Blvd, there was a farm across the street. Demographically, the neighborhood has changed immensely. At his elementary school, there were about three Asian families, four black kids who were brothers and the rest of the children were white. Martin shares that he grew up in Sauga at a time when there wasn’t a lot of POC, and recalls sticking out at his elementary school. He dealt with a lot of racism but doesn’t necessarily think of his childhood as a bad experience. Although the comments weren’t hateful, but rather "kids being kids," "anything that makes you feel different hurts." It wasn’t until middle school and high school that his environment became more diverse. It was still predominantly white but all the non-white people were sort of grouping together, and there was comfort in having others around who identified with each other’s experience, and who were not quite fitting in with the majority."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-069/001(09)
Date: 1983
Identifier: 2019-069/001(09)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153231

Title: Dhoré family videos : peekaboo and kisses
Description: Item consists of an Indo- and Black-Carribean family’s home movie featuring a girl playing peek-a-boo and kissing a newborn. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Shanti has recently given birth to her second child, Rohan on April 8th 2001 at Scarborough Grace General Hospital. Her mother (a nurse herself) supported Shanti during the delivery. Leyla, the oldest and only child for the first 6 years of her life meets her younger brother for the first time on video. Born closer to Easter, the rest of the family is able to travels down to meet the new member of the family. Robert who is now 16 is meeting his youngest cousin for the first time."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-059/001(11)
Date: 2001
Identifier: 2019-059/001(11)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153229

Title: Dhoré family videos : meeting baby brother
Description: Item consists of an Indo- and Black-Carribean family’s home movie featuring a girl sitting next to a hospital bed and saying "she’s so beautiful." Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Shanti has recently given birth to her second child, Rohan on April 8th 2001 at Scarborough Grace General Hospital. Her mother (a nurse herself) supported Shanti during the delivery. Leyla, the oldest and only child for the first 6 years of her life meets her younger brother for the first time on video. Born closer to Easter, the rest of the family is able to travels down to meet the new member of the family. Robert who is now 16 is meeting his youngest cousin for the first time."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-059/001(09)
Date: 2001
Identifier: 2019-059/001(09)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153227

Title: Dhoré family videos : picking grapes
Description: Item consists of an Indo- and Black-Carribean family’s home movie featuring a women and a child picking grapes from the pergola. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Shanti’s sister’s farm is a treasured place in their family’s collective memories. With 90 acres of land, the farm was a beloved retreat to the country for the Toronto family. In the footage, Leyla can be seen showing her picked grapes to her mother. Above them, Shanti’s mother picks grapes from their pergola. Having recently started ballet classes, Leyla is wearing a pink ballet outfit complete with her own tutu. Endured by her outfit and feeling affection, Leyla is hugged by her grandmother. At almost 4 years old, Layla and her grandmother are preparing the lights (diyas) for Diwali. In the Caribbean, the diyas would be lit outside the home, but since the family lived in an apartment the practise was kept to inside the home. Carefully, Leyla is guided in helping her grandmother. Her mother was a retired nurse to prepare for the holiday. Leyla grew up watching her grandmother during her daily prayers and helping on Diwali. In rare form, Shanti is in front of the camera. As the family documenter, Shanti is usually the one behind the camera. Dressed as a witch, Shanti can be seen posing with her daughter who decided to go as a fairy princess this year before their evening of trick-or-treating."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-059/001(01)
Date: 2001
Identifier: 2019-059/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153226

Title: Dhaliwal family videos : traditional Sikh marriage in India
Description: Item consists of a Punjabi-, Jatt-, and Sikh-Canadian family's home movie featuring family members speaking to one another, driving through the countryside, and speaking one another at a wedding. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Jagtar’s grandfather Sardar Bishon Singh left colonial India in 1902 and after enduring a two year journey via several steam ships from Calcutta, Hong Kong, The Philippines and Hawaii finally arrived on the shores of California in the Port of Stockton in 1904. Sardar Bishon Singh was instrumental in establishing the very first Sikh Gurdwara in North America in Stockton California. Following the devastating major San Francisco earthquake and then the resulting fires which completely destroyed San Francisco in 1906, Jagtar’s grandfather escaped to Vancouver British Columbia on a boxcar, marking the first of his family’s arrival in Canada. His grandfather was eventually able to sponsor his younger brothers son’s arrival to Canada in January of 1960, and Jagtar born in India in December of 1959, arrived to Canada at five years of age on December 18th, 1964. Jagtar returned to India for the first time since his childhood at 25 years old for a traditional Sikh marriage in January of 1985. In this clip, on February 5th, 1985 in Gurdwara Karamsar Rara Sahib or Gurdwara Rara Sahib is situated at village Rara Sahib near Ludhiana, Punjab, India, Jagtar and his soon to be wife Gurinder Kaur, receive a blessing from the Gurdwara Sant Ji elder prior to their wedding. The two elder gentlemen are Jagtar’s future father-in-law Sardar Mewa Singh Kular and father Sardar Hardev Singh Dhaliwal. Here his father is visible in a pale blue suit not far from Sant Ji. This home movie memorializes these two important figures in Jagtar’s life who have since passed, his father-in-law and his father. After his father’s passing, Jagtar says it was fate to see his father here and remember him as a young man. In the next scene, Jagtar is in his ancestral village in Toosey, Punjab, India dressed in his wedding attire. As they are leaving, elders and family women offer their blessings by giving him sweet treats. The car and the groom's family travel down to the Milni ceremony (meeting of the two families) for introduction between the two families. After both sides of the family arrive, the fathers meet and exchange garlands. The uncles at each level exchange an official introduction. Then people gather for tea and refreshments just before going to the Gurdwara, a place of worship. The groom’s side of the family pays respect to the Guru Granth Sahib, a living embodiment of the Sikh’s gurus."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-051/001(01)
Date: Feb. 1985
Identifier: 2019-051/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153225

Title: Dhoré family videos : grandma swimming the cold pool
Description: Item consists of an Indo- and Black-Carribean family’s home movie featuring an adult in the pool and a child watching. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Robert, Shanti’s nephew swings 2-year-old Layla around on his family’s farm in Puslinch. Ten years older than Leyla and an only child, he cherished the weekend and summer visits from his younger cousin. Her mother was an active swimmer in her youth and was excited to take up her old hobby on the family farm. Layla gestures to her grandmother in the pool who is clearly enjoying her self. Smiling brightly and leisurely swimming around she tells Layla how cold the pool is and not to come in."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-059/001(06)
Date: 1996
Identifier: 2019-059/001(06)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153224

Title: Chen family videos : 1973 Winter High Park
Description: Item consists of a Chinese family's home movie featuring adults and children skating on Grenadier Pond. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Shortly after arriving with her family in 1968 Canada, Millie’s family visit Niagara Falls. This clip is the last recorded film of her older sister, Wendy, before she was killed in a car accident in the fall of that year. The next time the camera is picked up is for the birth of her younger sister Cecilia. The other selected footage feature several outings to cottage country and parks all across Southern Ontario, as well as the Eastern seaboard. Millie’s parents had an immense appreciation for the outdoors and wanted to nurture this relationship in their children. Mavericks in their own way, the Chens encouraged their children to take part in various cultural experiences. Millie and her sister were both trained in the arts and later continue to take part in the arts world through their careers. In February 1977, Millie plays the piano at her recital in a concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Always nervous when performing publicly, Millie was grateful to be wearing her mother’s hand made skirt that was long enough to hide her trembling knees. During Cherry Blossom season her family enjoy a beautiful afternoon in High Park. Unlike the present day, the park is mostly empty outside of a few people in the background. Her father who usually is behind the camera can be seen enjoying the day with his family. Over the years, Millie and her mother would occasionally take over the filming to get their father in front of the camera. Her mother is particularly teasing and playful on this day. She can be seen laying in the grass kicking up her feet and winking at the camera."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-057/001(09)
Date: 1973
Identifier: 2019-057/001(09)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153223

Title: Seaman family videos : Lahant Milking Cow etc.
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring adults and children drinking from a coconut . Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries - the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s. This was Heather’s first international family vacation, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’- property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(16)
Date: 1978
Identifier: 2019-067/001(16)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153222

Title: Seaman family videos : Halloween costumes
Description: Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children dancing and exiting a house in Halloween costumes. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The Seaman family moved to their second family home on 100th Avenue in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec in the mid-1970s. In this particular footage, Heather recalls getting ready for Halloween and dressing up in homemade costumes. Heather recalls doing a multitude of different activities as a child, and explains that they weren’t limited as children. For example, her brother, Herbert, played hockey at a high level and played guitar, while she and her sister Hazel figure skated, took piano lessons, and dance classes. "We were the only black family in the neighbourhood and an interesting story is when we first moved there, people were shocked to see a black family with two cars!" In Laval, Heather’s mother Althea Joseph Charles Seaman, started the Laval Black Community Association in 1983 to bring together Black people from different cultural backgrounds. The intention was to create a support system, but also a space for people to learn about each other’s cultures and share their achievements, successes and heritage with the wider Canadian community. Her mother also developed an annual Black History Month celebration where people showcased their artwork, music, writing, spoken word pieces and dance performances. Business people, clergy from various faiths and politicians from all levels of Government were always in the audience no matter their race or whether they were English or French speakers. "The organizations that our mom created were to give us a sense of our heritage.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-067/001(03)
Date: 1976-1977
Identifier: 2019-067/001(03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153221

Title: Chen family videos : birthday cake
Description: Item consists of a Chinese family's home movie featuring three adults and a girl blowing out candles on a birthday cake, reading a booklet titled "happy birthday mom," removing the candles, and slicing the cake. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Shortly after arriving with her family in 1968 Canada, Millie’s family visit Niagara Falls. This clip is the last recorded film of her older sister, Wendy, before she was killed in a car accident in the fall of that year. The next time the camera is picked up is for the birth of her younger sister Cecilia. The other selected footage feature several outings to cottage country and parks all across Southern Ontario, as well as the Eastern seaboard. Millie’s parents had an immense appreciation for the outdoors and wanted to nurture this relationship in their children. Mavericks in their own way, the Chens encouraged their children to take part in various cultural experiences. Millie and her sister were both trained in the arts and later continue to take part in the arts world through their careers. In February 1977, Millie plays the piano at her recital in a concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Always nervous when performing publicly, Millie was grateful to be wearing her mother’s hand made skirt that was long enough to hide her trembling knees. During Cherry Blossom season her family enjoy a beautiful afternoon in High Park. Unlike the present day, the park is mostly empty outside of a few people in the background. Her father who usually is behind the camera can be seen enjoying the day with his family. Over the years, Millie and her mother would occasionally take over the filming to get their father in front of the camera. Her mother is particularly teasing and playful on this day. She can be seen laying in the grass kicking up her feet and winking at the camera."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-057/001(07)
Date: [between 1968 and 1977]
Identifier: 2019-057/001(07)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153220